Beyond Divinity

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A pretty boring game. Even at highest difficulty, the game is easy. The Battlefields are even worse. I would not recommend playing.

Couldn't get into it, but seems like a good time for something out of 2004. Pretty dated by modern standards. The gimmic of two characters being connected is cool, but doesn't play well, as you have to micro even more. Also enemies are hard to click on while playing on HD (1080p). Music is glitching out constantly, ruins the mood.

Falls incredibly short of it's predecessor. Somehow runs worse than Divine Divinity and is plagued with graphical errors. Suffers from poor controls. Barely playable.

The game has regular crashes, sound cutting out which requires a restart to fix and quests that don't get resolved properly. Writing, voice acting, dialogue choices, skill system and loot are all worse than the first game. It feels like the game was made by a different team.

One of the other reviews on here described Beyond Divinity as 'claustrophobic' and I would have to say that's a pretty fitting description. Whereas Divine Divinity felt very open and allowed whatever objective you wished from the get-go, Beyond Divinity immediately made me feel confined and trapped on one path - one very brown and ugly path. So much so that I couldn't push very far in to the game. I enjoyed the original game but this sequel is a pass from me. Although I will defend the voice acting - it is hilariously bad and I love it.

I'd say it's mostly good. This is an adventure game with a heavy RPG element. The graphics are old. The music is OK. The story is decent. It's a little hard to follow, but you eventually get to know the plot.

There are several bugs. A couple of those can potentially be game-breaking, so you really should save often. The rest are just cosmetic stuff. There have been no crashes.

Overall, entertaining but repetitive. This is kinda the same thing as Divine Divinity. Nowadays it could be labeled a DLC. Back in the day, it was called a "stand-alone". Anyway, it's an independent story you can play with no previous experience with the lore of Divine Divinity. The main problem is that this is very repetitive and doesn't feel that the combat and the looting ara all that rewarding. The voice acting is amateurish at best. The good stuff is the long maps and some of the little stories that are not bad, some are really funny.

The game is long enough for the price. It's not a game for the impatient and it features perma-death, so fail to make your saves and you'll be toasted. This is retro-gaming and its mixed status is justified. I liked it a bit more than I disliked it, so I'll put myself on the positive side of the fence, but I would not blame ya if you stay on the other side.

This is such a bad eurojank game...pls stop comparing it to BG anything.

Gameplay wise it's the same as Divine Divinity. It works well enough but just has some problems purely because of how old it is, but none of those problems are unfixable. The reason I'm leaving this negative review though is purely just because of how boring and drawn out the story is. I'm almost 12 hours into the game and almost nothing has happened story wise. You wake up in a dungeon with the task "escape" and then you spend the next few hours just running around a labyrinth with no story progression and little world building. I'm now just at a point where I have no motivation to get back into my game.

Buggy, still fun.

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Great step for Larian after Divine Divinity.
Ugly visual, but not boring gameplay.

Buggy and with the older graphics, probably not worth sinking your time into, in this day and age. Look no further than the Divinity Original Sin series

beyond broken